Very good to hear from you John and receive your valued comments.
Sorry for the delay in replying. We have had a couple of 'no computer' days over Christmas.
The concept of the photo register initially came from the idea of making photos of the actual registered cars 'Rumcars' available to all members, rather than as hard copies in a folder in Jeans system.
This was met with some resistance and people were worried about registration numbers being shown and other concerns.
There is a general interest in having information about unusual microcars available in a central on-line library and probably the best place for this is the Rumcars website.
However, the resource is not available to implement this and also which individual might take on the labour intensive task of maintaining it?
The site of Denis - microcarfan.com is a good example of a resource on a few unusual french microcars.
http://www.microcarfan.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=14&Itemid=26The Moped gallery is a good example -
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pattle/nacc/gallery/galindex.htmlMembers cars at -
http://www.microcar.org/gallery/v/Member+Photos/Burt these are
websites and need maintenance and attention from an an administrator with website knowledge.
My interim solution is just to supply a storage area on the net for photos and other information to be collected whilst knowledge exists.
This information could be used on a proper website in the future.
The idea is to make it belong only to the registered contributors to Rumcars forum. It is not a website and is therefore a private / group resource.
Rather than one person having the time-consuming task of trying to upload all photos and information, the plan would be for experts within the rumcars circles to self administrate the content.
I fully acknowledge your concerns on copyright and everyone with access must not knowingly add copyright material.
I am not sure about the rules on coptyright but I thought that, as a private resource rather than public, the copyright issue did not apply?
There is some concern that any scanned image from an old magazine etc. could be subject to copyright infringement? This would also apply to the Rumcars forum?
Is it not the case that a photo must have the inscription 'Copyright' on it in order to be protected. Any such photo would not be allowed in the photo register.
I have quickly added lots of photos and information on all sorts of cars just to get things going and see if it would work.
Ideally much of the content would be from Rumcars contributors personal archives - particularly the history of individual cars from different owners. I may be asking too much.
I will remove the photos that have been borrowed from your site and leave it to you to add relevant content. This content should have your personal information added before uploading if required.
I would love to add acknowledgements on each photo or document but it would become an administrative nightmare, especially as the content is being added by many contributors.
This storage resource will only work if minimal maintenance is required.
For each make of car there will be a Word document for information and links and this is where links to web sites like yours (which is fantastic) will be made available.
I think that any photos that have ever been uploaded to the Rumcars forum can be included in the storage area as they have already been 'released' to the contributors.
Regards
Barry